Container service serverless version ACK serverless
Container service serverless version (ACK Serverless for short) is a safe and reliable container product based on Alibaba Cloud elastic computing infrastructure and fully compatible with Kubernetes ecology. With this product, you can quickly create Kubernetes container applications without managing and maintaining the cluster, and pay on demand according to the amount of CPU and memory resources actually used by the application, so that you can focus more on the application itself rather than the infrastructure running the application.

Product advantages

Easy to use
Create an ACK Serverless cluster quickly with low threshold, and deploy container applications in seconds. No need to manage Kubernetes nodes and servers, focusing on business applications
Elastic expansion
Using the ACK Serverless cluster does not need to worry about the capacity planning of the cluster node. It can easily and flexibly expand the resources required by the application according to the application load
Safety isolation
Based on Alibaba Cloud elastic container instance ECI, application pods are isolated from each other to prevent interference
Kubernetes compatible
Container applications can be deployed through Kubernetes command line and API, and Kubernetes typical application scenarios can be supported without modification

Product Functions

Simplify Kubernetes cluster management Choosing an ACK Serverless cluster requires no management server and node, no maintenance of a fixed resource pool, low O&M management costs, and allows users to focus on business applications.
Provide rich Pod functions based on ECI It supports specifying the underlying specifications of the Pod, attaching EIP, vGPU instances, Spot preemptive instances, image snapshots, and other functions.
Serverless is extremely elastic Based on the cloud oriented serverless highly elastic architecture, it can flexibly cope with peak business loads and easily support a single cluster of 10000 Pods.
Rich Kubernetes functions Support native Service/Express/Deployment/Job/CRD/Helm and other functions, and one-stop management of Kubernetes application life cycle.
Charge on demand per second The resource consumption is charged according to the time period from the start to the end of the instance. No fees are charged if the instance is not used, and no fees are paid for idle resources to reduce the overall computing cost.

Application scenarios

Application Hosting
Online business flexibility
Data calculation
CI/CD Tasks
Use container service serverless to manage K8s cluster at low O&M cost
There is no need to manage nodes to avoid various problems of node exceptions. All pods are securely isolated, greatly reducing the cost of cluster operation and maintenance.
Able to solve
The underlying infrastructure management is complex when deploying applications, and the operation and maintenance investment time is high
When using ECS or a Kubernetes cluster with nodes, it takes a lot of time to manage the underlying infrastructure. The ACK Serverless cluster can significantly reduce the operation and maintenance workload, allowing users to focus on applications rather than the underlying infrastructure.
Automatic business expansion based on business flow
For the peaks and valleys of business traffic, ACK Serverless is used to dynamically and flexibly scale the Pod to avoid wasting a lot of idle node resources.
Able to solve
The elastic capacity expansion based on nodes is not efficient enough to deal with peak traffic in a timely manner
When faced with high traffic in a short time, the ACK Serverless cluster can efficiently expand a large number of pods to meet the elastic requirements of the business.
Data calculation based on serverless elasticity and low cost
According to business data processing requirements, it can quickly create a large number of computing tasks in a short time to meet the demands of business big data and AI online processing, and is widely used in Spark, Presto and other data computing scenarios
Able to solve
High idle rate of resource pool and high cost
Using the ACK Serverless cluster does not require capacity planning, but creates applications on demand to reduce computing costs.
Support CI/CD task execution at low cost
Use ACK Serverless to run Jenkins/Gatlab Runner to create jobs on demand, which greatly reduces computing costs.
Able to solve
CI/CD isolation is not high, and the cost of maintaining a fixed resource pool is not low
The Pod runtime in the ACK Serverless cluster is strongly isolated and will not affect each other. At the same time, on-demand use can avoid long-term maintenance of fixed resource pools and reduce computing costs.

Customer Stories

Product Dynamics

New functions/specifications on October 31, 2019
Support optional specifications when creating load balancing services
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New functions/specifications on October 31, 2019
API Server supports EIP binding/unbinding
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New functions/specifications on October 31, 2019
Edge cluster supports ENS node automatic capacity expansion (OpenAPI support)
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New functions/specifications on October 31, 2019
Edge cluster supports GPU nodes
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October 31, 2019 New Region/New Availability Zone
Serverless K8s opens Zhangjiakou area
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New functions/specifications on November 29, 2019
Cluster creation and capacity expansion support custom script configuration (white list)
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New functions/specifications on November 29, 2019
Automatic scaling supports labeling ECS
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New functions/specifications on November 29, 2019
The cluster capacity expansion function is strengthened to support the selection of multiple availability zones and the addition of multiple data disks
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New functions/specifications on November 29, 2019
Node operation and maintenance support docking oos (operation and maintenance choreography service)
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New functions/specifications on November 29, 2019
The image market supports the selection of image service Enterprise version image
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New functions/specifications on November 29, 2019
Severless K8s supports the creation of multi zone applications
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New functions/specifications on November 29, 2019
Cloud Control Manager (CCM) supports ECS nodes outside the cluster to access the SLB backend
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New functions/specifications on November 29, 2019
Support the creation of vGPU type clusters
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New functions/specifications on November 29, 2019
Multi cluster access supports log service and ARMS service
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New region/new zone on December 31, 2019
Container Service Hosted Edition Cluster Open Financial Cloud East China 1 (Hangzhou)
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New functions/specifications on December 31, 2019
Add node local dns to the application directory
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New functions/specifications on December 31, 2019
Windows cluster supports K8s1.14.8
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2019-12-31 Function optimization
Node list supports searching by name and IP
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2019-12-31 Function optimization
Authorization management supports sub account search and paging
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2019-12-31 Function optimization
Terminal experience optimization: increase ENI and the number of pods that can be created when selecting ECS specifications
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New functions/specifications on December 31, 2019
ACK supports Alibaba Cloud NPU
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New functions/specifications on January 31, 2020
Virtual node supports ECI Pod to access ClusterIP service
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New functions/specifications on January 31, 2020
Support cluster APIServer to enable ServiceAccountTokenVolumeProjection
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New functions/specifications on January 31, 2020
Storage plug-in CSI enhancement
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New functions/specifications on January 31, 2020
Enhanced storage capacity of secure sandbox containers
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New functions/specifications on January 31, 2020
Public beta of encrypted computing hosting cluster
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New functions/specifications on January 31, 2020
Gene computing (AGS) supports sequencing tasks through Open API
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2020-02-29 Function optimization
Cluster creation experience optimization: Step by Step
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2020-02-29 New Features/Specifications
Automatic scaling function enhancement: support Aliyun linux2 (white list)/custom security group (white list)/GPU bidding instance
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2020-02-29 New Features/Specifications
Cluster worker node supports centos7.7
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2020-02-29 New Features/Specifications
Upgrade the Helm version of the application directory to V3
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2020-02-29 New Features/Specifications
Cluster Docker version supports 19.03.5
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2020-02-29 New Region/New Availability Zone
Serverless Kubernetes opens in Jakarta and London
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2020-02-29 New Features/Specifications
Severless Kubernetes supports the creation of services of ClusterIP type
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2020-02-29 New Features/Specifications
Terraform supports auto scaling group configuration and security group configuration
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2020-02-29 New Features/Specifications
The SLB backend associated with the CCM support service mounts ECS and ECI simultaneously
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2020-02-29 New Features/Specifications
Edge cluster supports nodes accessing ARM32/64 architecture
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2020-03-31 New Features/Specifications
Component upgrade supports node health check
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2020-03-31 New Features/Specifications
CCM supports SLB to add custom ECS
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2020-03-31 New Features/Specifications
Terway supports cluster expansion to add new Pod availability zones, and supports node configuration changes to adjust the maximum number of Pods
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2020-03-31 New Features/Specifications
Node pool goes online
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2020-03-31 New Features/Specifications
Support K8s1.16 upgrade
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2020-03-31 New Features/Specifications
The application creation interface supports the ephemeral storage parameter of the configuration container
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2020-03-31 New Region/New Availability Zone
Trusteeship version financial cloud South China
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2020-04-30 New Features/Specifications
Support multi Ingress controller deployment
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2020-04-30 New Features/Specifications
Commercial opening of genetic computing AGS
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New region/new zone on April 30, 2020
Serverless Kubernetes opened its service in India
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2020-04-30 New Features/Specifications
Dynamic storage volume supports online expansion
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2020-04-30 New Features/Specifications
Support KMS secretmanager data synchronization to ACK
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2020-05-31 New Features/Specifications
Cluster creation supports enterprise level security groups
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2020-05-31 New Features/Specifications
Cluster component integration Prometheus component and event center
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2020-05-31 New Features/Specifications
Publish elasticworkload
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2020-05-31 New Features/Specifications
The application center goes online
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2020-06-30 New Features/Specifications
ACK Pro Release
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2020-07-31 New Region/New Availability Zone
ASK started serving Indonesia and Japan
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New products on July 31, 2020
ACK Pro public beta online
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2020-07-31 New Features/Specifications
The security center is online and supports security policy configuration and cluster patrol
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2020-07-31 New Features/Specifications
Creating a cluster supports Shared VPC
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2020-07-31 New Features/Specifications
Open beta of cluster registration function
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2020-07-31 New Features/Specifications
Node O&M supports the selection of common templates for oos services
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2020-07-31 New Features/Specifications
CCM releases a new version v1.9.3.309-gc59d371-aliyun
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2021-04-30 New Features/Specifications
Release K8s1.20
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2021-04-30 New Features/Specifications
Support migration of ACK proprietary cluster to ACK Pro
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2021-04-30 New Features/Specifications
Component management Go online NodeLocal DNSCache component
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2021-04-30 New Features/Specifications
The registration cluster supports event center and image secret free pull components
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2021-04-30 New Features/Specifications
ACK Pro supports control surface parameter customization
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2021-04-30 New Features/Specifications
Online alarm center
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2021-05-31 New Features/Specifications
The work node supports CIS security reinforcement
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2021-05-31 New Region/New Availability Zone
ACK launches local cloud service in Nanjing
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2021-05-31 New Region/New Availability Zone
ACK Hosted Edition Open Service Government Cloud
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2021-05-31 New Features/Specifications
The cluster cost analysis function is open and online
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2021-05-31 New Features/Specifications
ASK ingress supports users to specify SLB certificates
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2021-05-31 New Features/Specifications
Support AMD CPU topology scheduling
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2021-06-30 New Features/Specifications
Cluster resource group support drop-down box selection
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2021-06-30 New Features/Specifications
Registered cluster security capability support
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2021-06-30 New Features/Specifications
Cost analysis supports node pool ledger distribution
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2021-07-31 New Features/Specifications
CoreDNS components go online
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2021-07-31 New Features/Specifications
Enhanced security capability of registration cluster
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2021-07-31 New Features/Specifications
Container network file system CNFS 1.0 released
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2021-08-31 New Features/Specifications
The ACK scheduler is upgraded to v1.20-ack-4.0, which supports load aware scheduling and ECI elastic scheduling
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2021-08-31 New Features/Specifications
Intelligent operation and maintenance: release of cluster diagnosis function and cluster risk patrol function
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2021-08-31 New Features/Specifications
ASK Ingress ALB controller goes online
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2021-09-30 New Features/Specifications
ACK supports IPv6 dual stack mode
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2021-09-30 New Features/Specifications
Support the creation and management of ARM node pools
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2021-09-30 New Features/Specifications
ACK resource package goes online
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2021-09-30 New Features/Specifications
The container service backup center is invited to test publicly, supporting cloud ACK cluster backup and data center self built cluster backup
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2021-10-31 New Features/Specifications
Release of K8s v1.20.11
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2021-10-31 New Features/Specifications
Container service ALB Ingress goes online
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2021-10-31 New Features/Specifications
Container service ASK Pro public beta launch
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2021-11-30 New Features/Specifications
The node pool supports the expected number of nodes
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2021-11-30 New Features/Specifications
Cluster nodes support ContainerOS
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2021-12-31 New Features/Specifications
K8s1.22.3 Open Cluster Creation Function
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2022-01-31 New Region/New Availability Zone
ACK opens financial cloud in Beijing
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2022-02-28 New Features/Specifications
CoreDNS supports custom parameter configuration
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2022-03-31 New Features/Specifications
ACK and ASK clusters support AHPA elastic prediction
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2022-03-31 New Region/New Availability Zone
ACK opened its service in the Philippines
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2022-04-30 New Features/Specifications
ACK hosting cluster supports enabling RRSA feature
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2022-04-30 New Features/Specifications
The cluster supports security patrol and configuration patrol
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2022-05-31 New Features/Specifications
ACK Pro cluster supports configuration of shared GPU computing power allocation strategy
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2022-06-30 New Features/Specifications
ACK cluster supports K8s1.22 version
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